Preliminary task to the final media text.

Preliminary task• We shot our preliminary task at the

beginning of the school year.• Although we had some knowledge

obtained from gcse media, when compared to now, it was miniscule due to what we have learnt.

What we have learnt- cinematography

• During the period between our preliminary task and our construction text, we learnt a huge amount when concerning cinematography, we learnt more sophisticated camera shots (angles and lengths). Thus there is a noticeable difference in quality between the two texts.

Examples of shots from the preliminary task.

Examples of shots from our final construction text

• These shots show the development in quality and knowledge during the time period between the two texts. We incorporated more challenging angles and distances in our final text, using our research into the horror genre as inspiration and reference to the selection process of the shots. The preliminary task’s cinematography is basic in quality in comparison.

Mise-en-scene• Although we had a relatively strong understanding of mise-en-

scene at the time of the shooting of the preliminary task, we did not translate this knowledge into the actual text, we did not focus on the setting or the costume, ignoring mise-en-scene essentially.

• However our final piece, we focused heavily on the mise-en-scene, as it is a significant and vital component of all forms of visual media. For example the dad wears a Barbour jacket, as many men from the south of England choose this attire. We also focused heavily on lighting, with extreme contrasts being shown throughout the sequence.

Our skills of mise-en-scene and cinematography have developed immensely, this can be seen in this shot, I chose to position the camera, so that the dolls forehead is at the top of the frame, so her hair cannot be fully seen, this allowed me to position my hand on top of the doll’s head to be able to move it, to resemble it coming to life. This greatly helped the narrative become clear, as it clearly showed why the man went insane, but it also scares the audience, as the matter of inanimate objects coming to life is horrific due to its unlikely nature. This technique would’ve not been possible at the beginning of the year, and only through the development of our camera skills and the increase in our knowledge of the conventions of horror, were we able to do this sequence.

Editing • Throughout the time period between the two texts we have

constantly being improving our Adobe premier skills and our understanding of the components of premier. (i:e effects and layers.) we have also become more precise and professional with our editing, something that is vital when creating a good piece of visual media text.

Sound • A component of mise-en-scene and editing, we since the

preliminary task have increased our knowledge of sound ten fold, our preliminary task suffers form white noise disturbance in the background, something that we insured would not occur in the final construction piece, also we included music into our final piece, editing it into the sequence at the right time, creating atmosphere and suspense. We also included a mixture of diegetic and non-digetic sound, something that we did not do in the preliminary task.